On the cognitive dissonance of right wing policies
Just a quick book mark of this and also
http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2011/social-economy/big-society-battle-cognitive-dissonance/

There are two lessons for Government here. First, its emphasis on individual blame (e.g. ‘welfare scroungers’ or ‘greedy public sector workers’) as a means of building public support for austerity has had the effect of damaging social ties and made it harder to persuade people to work together to tackle social problems. In this sense, the Government’s own rhetoric is destroying the ground on which a Big Society should be built. ... Citizens, civil society organisations and public services are interdependent.

Much more to say on this, but it needs some careful thought first.20 Musley Ln, Ware